Once word got out Kibwe wasn’t the go to person
once diamonds were smuggled in, as Jessica had predicted, the power struggle
started. Each entrant promising more and better returns on the goods they
handled.

Katie lifted her skirts as she dashed toward Everett Brown, the Latin Master and her love. He approached up the front walk of the Pythian House, a grin on his face and when she reached him, he flung his arms open wide. She walked into them and he lifted her into his arms.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. The word prompt this week is "Dawn" and it's fitting that our writer named, Dawne, is participating!! Click on the writer's name to go to their blog and read their story. Be sure to return via the link on their blog and read more stories.

Cody resolved to climbing into his empty bed, all the while thinking of
Lydia sleeping a mere ten-feet from him; his bedroom, adjacent to where
Lydia slumbered in Bethany’s old room. IRIS BLOBEL (Contemporary Romance)“Don’t take it to heart, my dear,” Rose said as she placed her arm
around Nicky’s shoulder. “He doesn’t admit it, but it’s his way of
grieving.”SHERRY GLOAG (Regency)

Salamanca
– July 22nd 1812

“We’ve endured some bad storms, have
we not Dev, but I misremember one as bad as this.”

Billy and Gallo pulled up
in front of the café.Alexandra’s
car sat directly in front, meaning she was inside. The café was dark except for
a tiny light in the back, close to where the food pantry would be.

LINDSAY DOWNS(Sensual Suspense)As predicted the lighter flared as a, with what
sounded like a puff of air from pursed lips, bullet exited the silenced barrel
of a 22 caliber Colt Woodsman. Jessica allowed herself to mentally pat John,
the team armorer, on the back for the ingenious reworking of the powder load in
the round.STEFAN ELLERY (Sci Fi)The ship blasted through the atmosphere, Paul held on tight, the
rattling of the frame unnerved him.LEE ANN SONTHEIMER MURPHY(Historical Romance)"A New Life Dawns"Judging by everything she had experienced, Everett Brown seemed as smitten as she.Their stolen kisses, the sweet moments sneaked from the daily routine meant everything to Katie Lafferty.KATHLEEN TIGHE BALL (Modern Cowboy Romance)"Summer's Desire" She would have expected him to
sleep with his wife but to lie about it made her realize that she really
didn’t know Stone. In fact, she was leery of all men.CAROLYN GIBBS(Romantic Suspense)After
an hour of talking about the book they wrote together and doing a sequel,
Claire finally looked at her cell phone for the time. “Wow, it’s almost 2 AM.
I’m going to bed before we see the dawn rising up.

As
Katie waited, she considered climbing out of the window but it wouldn’t
be very ladylike and would be certain to draw more trouble. So she folded her hands in her lap and stared at her trunk, brown and sturdy.

With an icy coolness, from years of training, through night
vision binoculars Jessica scanned the darkened windows of the chateau. All she
had to go on was a description of one item in the room where their friends were
being held hostage.

“No, no, noooo” my grandfather had warned me so many times as a young child. “Do not open Grand papa’s chest. It holds the treasure closet to my heart.”STEFAN ELLERY (Sci Fi) Knock Knock, came the hollow sound from within the trunk.MORGEN BAILEY (Romance)

Watching the policeman in her rear view mirror, Rosie clicked the button to release the central locking and got out the car.

“Surprised you got here at all,” he said softly, kicking her flat tyre.

Monday, July 9, 2012

"Too Late for Goodbye" “I want him back.”“What?”“You heard me. I want him back. I only
gave him to you…temporarily. A loaner,” Ariel Bowers laughed at her own joke.DAVEE JONES(Romantic Suspense)"Joelle padded to the bathroom and found the ibuprofen and Sudafed. All she needed now was the caffeine chaser she swore by to wash down her headache relief."

As
Rosie drove over the hill and caught her first sight of the sea, The
Lighthouse Family’s ‘Ocean Drive’ was playing on the radio. ‘It’s a
sign,” she said to Bertie, her tabby, now meowing from his carrier on
the passenger seat of her Suzuki Swift.

The lap of the ocean waves against the shoreline, the caw
of the gulls, and the sand swishing between her bare toes provided
some relief. Today, however, with so many unresolved questions, she
felt on edge.

Alexandra fumbled with her key. The street light in front of the café blew out and the bulb
in the old fashioned pole in front of the café was also off. She had expected Billy to there
already. But that was Billy, always full of surprises.

The Primier sat at one end of
the conference table while Ishmael was directly across from him. The
table had computer screens built in them where placemats would be and
the Premier was reading its contents. As Ishmael patiently waited for
him to finish, Sabrina and Henry stood in the far corner near the window
observing.

At dinner
Dan strategically positioned himself next to Lacy, but across from Nancy, so he
could keep an eye on her. He appeared calm, but inside racked his brain about
that morning on the little island.

Most days, Virginia enjoyed going to work. There was nothing thrilling about long sheets of numbers, rows and columns matching just so, with a few phone calls and emails going out when they happened not to match the way they were supposed to, but she didn’t need thrills at work; she had enough of those at home.

Their outing ended much too soon. After
a delicious lunch – roast chicken with dressing and last summer’s green
peas – in a busy restaurant – Katie hated to even think of returning to
the Pythian House.LINDSAY DOWNS(Sensual Suspense)

From
his seat Jacques Demond watched as the terminal grew closer. Every four months
for the past eight years he’d made this same trip, but today would be his last. SHERRY GLOAG (Romantic suspense)

When
Vidal tried to press money
into the man’s hand he stepped back, his hands behind his back. “Phillipe does
not tell us all, but whatever he decides we all support him.”